What about smartpm?
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 16:34:36 UTC 2005
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:55 -0800, MJang wrote:
>>
>> A couple of months ago, I was under the impression that all the distros
>> were moving in that direction, as Smartpm can handle upgrades to both
>> RPMs and DEBs and can work from all kinds of repositories (apt, yum,
>> urpmi, slack, etc.). Is Smartpm still under consideration for FC5?
>
> As far as I know, no. Duplicate functionality. Fedora doesn't use apt,
> no need to worry about that from a Fedora standpoint. Fedora uses yum,
> yum cli updates, pup graphically updates.
>
Partially true - but yum is smart, and smart is smarter.
For example, just this morning yum quit updating. I don't recall the
details, but I had installed videolan-client from dries yum repos, and an
update of one of it's depends (from a different repo) broke it.
yum was stymied.
smart just offered to downgrade the depend, and happily fixed it.
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